Lord’s Day 50
Q125. What does the fourth request mean?
Give us this day our daily bread means, do take care of all our physical needs so that we come to know that you are the only source of everything good, and that neither our work and worry nor your gifts can do us any good without your blessing. And so help us to give up our trust in creatures and to put trust in you alone.
Scripture Proofs — King James Version
Psalm 104:27–28
Psalm 145:15–16
“The eyes of all wait upon thee; and thou givest them their meat in due season. Thou openest thine hand, and satisfiest the desire of every living thing.”
Matthew 6:25–34
“Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment? Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?”
Acts 14:17
Acts 17:25
James 1:17
“Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.”
Deuteronomy 8:3
Psalm 37:16
Psalm 127:1–2
1 Corinthians 15:58
Psalm 55:22
Psalm 62
Psalm 146
Jeremiah 17:5–8
Hebrews 13:5–6
Test Yourself · Q125